XY-Archive-Compliance

What is XY-Archive-Compliance?

About

XY-Archive-Compliance creates website archives to help customers meet regulatory and legal compliance requirements for data retention and historical website preservation. You can see how often XY-Archive-Compliance visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

Archivers visit websites on a roughly regular cadence, since snapshots are more useful when they're regularly spaced out. Popular websites will have more frequent visits since they are more likely to be queried in the historical database in the future.

Type

Archiver
Snapshots websites for historical databases

Detail

Operated By XY Archive Compliance
Last Updated 15 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking XY-Archive-Compliance
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Country of Origin

Unknown
XY-Archive-Compliance has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Archivers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block XY-Archive-Compliance?

It's up to you. Digital archiving is generally done to preserve a historical record. If you don't want to be part of that record for some reason, you can block archivers.

How Do I Block XY-Archive-Compliance?

You can block XY-Archive-Compliance or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

How Do I Block All Archivers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new archivers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/xy-archive-compliance
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.